Re: Gnus Agent and mail

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> [It's a bit late to reply to this now, but I've been offline for quite
> some time, so...]
>
> On 29 apr 2003, kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com wrote:
>>Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>>
>>>On 14 apr 2003, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net wrote:
>>>I think there ought to be an option to control whether or not the
>>>agent should queue mail--it seems easy to add, and it's clearly
>>>useful.
>>
>>While I agree with the intent, I don't like the idea of changing the
>>definition of gnus-plugged to cover every back-end EXCEPT imap.
>
> Hmm, where did IMAP get into this?

I meant nnimap.

> As far as I know, for mail the machinery for sending mail is totally
> decoupled from that for receiving it (unlike news).  For instance, I
> have both nnimap and nnml groups, but when I send email it is always
> sent with whatever message-send-mail-function specifies.

True.  I personally don't use gnus with my mail so I'm coming up to
speed by making foolish statements :).

> What I would like is a variable gnus-agent-queue-mail such that:
>
>   always -> always queue mail that is sent, regardless of plugged status.
>   nil -> never queue mail that is sent, regardless of plugged status.
>   otherwise, queue mail that is sent if and only if gnus is unplugged.

Yes. Sounds perfectly reasonable.  My concerns are:
1) If I do this for mail sending, will someone else have an equally
   valid argument for why backend X should also have its own "obey
   gnus-plugged" configuration setting?
2) Just how more complex must the configuration get before it is sufficient?

BTW, I'm actually convincing myself that gnus-agent-queue-mail is the
reasonable thing to do.

> Or at least that is what I would have liked; I now have a permanent
> internet connection so don't use the agent much anymore.
>
>>I think that it would be better to change the code such that the
>>plugged status per server can be configured to either 1) always
>>plugged, 2) never plugged , or 3) plugged when gnus-plugged is t.
>
> That might be useful too.

Already voted done.  My interpretation of the gnus-plugged
documentation was incorrect.